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Canada Has Its Own Racist Structures to Dismantle

The focus of the world’s media can make it seem like racism and the “War on Drugs” are primarily United…

July 2, 2020

NYC Fails to #DefundNYPD—But Activists Are Just Getting Started

Although the battle to defund the police in New York City was set back by the June 30 approval of…

July 1, 2020

How We Can All Take Responsibility to Avoid Calling the Police

Calls to defund the police are picking up national momentum from Los Angeles to New York City. The Minneapolis City…

July 1, 2020

My Experience of Brutal Arrest at a Black Lives Matter Protest

It happened almost by accident. I was walking past Union Square after dinner with a friend in June 2016 and…

June 30, 2020

Philadelphia’s Latest Backward Step Is Nothing New

If the War on Drugs were seeking a motto, “One step forward, two steps back,” might be rejected as overly…

June 25, 2020

Silicon Valley Prosecutor’s Dog-Whistle Threat to Muslim Public Defender

  Sajid A. Khan is a community leader and public defender in Santa Clara County, California, a county of almost…

June 25, 2020

Abolitionist Scientists Challenge Crime Prediction Software Research

One thousand scientists have denounced new software designed to predict criminality based off of a single face photo. They're now…

June 24, 2020

Don’t “Defund” the War on Drugs⁠—Cut It Off

It took the caught-on-camera murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin—and weeks of massive street protests, clashes…

June 18, 2020

“A Million Experiments”⁠—Leading Abolitionists Outline Roadmap to #DefundPolice

Amid an unprecedented mainstream debate over disarming and disbanding police, leading abolitionists published a tool guide to conceptually clarify the…

June 17, 2020

The Pandemic Accelerates the Rise⁠—and Criminalization⁠—of Tent Cities

Just before we went into lockdown, I visited Sanctuary, a homelessness organization in Toronto, to interview people with experience of…

June 17, 2020